Light Rain Falls Across Ottawa Area Amid Wider Kansas Rainfall
Weather officials reported scattered rain across central Kansas with Topeka and Shawnee County receiving up to 3.5 inches. Pomona Reservoir logged 1.50 inches in under two hours while Gypsum saw flood waters recede after cloudburst rains. Towns like Lyndon Burlingame and many others measured varying amounts as heavier showers spared Ottawa itself.
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Weather Bureau
Pomona Reservoir
Office of the Army Engineers
Quenemo
Lyndon
Burlingame
Pomona
Kansas
Gypsum
Topeka
Shawnee County
Sharon Springs
Ness City
Healy
Hill City
Cedar Bluff
Jetmore
Cawker City
Salina
Rexford
Hoxie
Lucerne
Colby
Webster Reservoir
Great Bend
Hutchinson
Lindsborg
Abilene
Horton
Clay Center
Manhattan
Lane High to reopen. Richmond High stays closed
Rural High School District Joint 10 votes to reopen Lane School in September while Richmond High remains shut since May. Directors Raymond Wagner Princeton Joe McAuliffe Ben Chrisjohn vote for Lane opening. Ralph McCrea and Lewis Sebba of Richmond vote against. Lane will be redecorated, high school classes to be held on the second floor, and accreditation expected this year.
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Lane High School
Richmond High
Rural High School
Joint 10
Lane School
Raymond Wagner
Richmond
Joe McAuliffe
Princeton
Ben Chrisjohn
Lane
Ralph McCrea
Lewis Sebba
Gypsum Cleanups After Central Kansas Flood Exposure
Gypsum Kansas reports another two inches of rain with no extra trouble after a flash flood that struck Wednesday and Thursday. Creeks swelled, debris cleared, streets reopened, and National Guardsmen kept sightseers away. Salina measured 5.11 inches in a rain band. nearby towns had lighter totals.
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Kan
Kansas
National
McPherson
John Anderson
Salina
Smoky Hill
Lindsberg
Hungary’s Kadar in Moscow Pushes Liberalization
Moscow talks between Khrushchev and Kadar center on Hungary’s liberalization moves to loosen Stalinist control. Tass notes focus on Hungary’s economy unity and cultural progress while Kadar seeks Western support, having ousted Stalinists, eased intellectual clampdown, engaged with the Vatican, freed Mindszenty, granted amnesty to about 10 000 1956 Freedom Fighters, and improved U.S. relations.
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Tass
Khrushchev
Kadar
Hungary
Soviet Union
Red China
New Rail Report Basis For Laws
Kennedy's fact finding committee starts a new study of the four year old railroad labor dispute to prepare a report for July 90. The plan is to craft legislative recommendations for Congress by July 22 amid a threatened nationwide rail strike. The panel may favor arbitration and not mediation due to time constraints.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Missing Trio Sought In Pittsburgh Coal Mine Search
Federal mine officials halted a search for three missing boys after rescue workers emerged from an abandoned coal mine with no proof they were inside. Police say the boys may be above ground and time was needed to reassess.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Orr
Castle Shannon
T.J. McDonald
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Bobby Abbott
Mount Washington
Danny O'Kain
Billy Berk
Badwin Two
Robert Abbott
Abbott
Appointed Assistant Postmaster Rex M Lewis promoted
Rex M Lewis has been promoted to Assistant Postmaster effective Aug 31 replacing Harry Holmes who retires at age 70. Lewis 45 has Ottawa roots 44 years with prior service from 1938 to 1953 in various postal roles and in finance the last decade. Holmes began in 1918 and moved to Ottawa in 1919. he and Mrs Holmes plan a August vacation.
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Rex M. Lewis
Harry Holmes
Lewis
Ottawa
Ralph A. Lewis
Holmes
Junction City
H. Arthur Wharton
Herald
Sino-Soviet Talks Stop Amid Ongoing Dispute
Moscow AP report says Russian and Chinese Communist delegates again failed to meet for truce talks. Both sides avoided the conference hall. Teng Hsiao-ping led Chinese delegation en route to the Chinese Embassy. Beijing accused Moscow of projecting its ideological quarrel to government level.
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Teng Hsiao-ping
Lenin Hills
Khrushchev
Peking
China
Soviet Union
Chen Yi
Outer Mongolia
North Korea
Cambridge braces under martial law in racial warfare
Four hundred National Guardsmen rushed into Cambridge Maryland after a night of gunfire and mob violence left six white residents and two others wounded. Curfew, shop closures, alcohol ban, and stop and search orders were imposed as police battled roving gunmen and protesters.
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George E. Davidson
National Guards
Cambridge
Ecuador President Ousted By Military Junta
Quito reports that a military junta exiled President Carlos Arosemena after declaring him unfit and sympathetic to communism. Five killed and three wounded were reported as troops fired on a crowd while the junta entered the government palace to assume power.
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Quito
Ecuador
Carlos Arosemena
Colombia
Fighting Fellows Demonstration in Savannah Riots
Heavily armed police and state troopers patrolled Savannah after tear gas was fired for a second night to break up rock throwing by Negro crowds. Two teenagers were shot, Walter Williams 18 and Gene Drew 18, with gunshot wounds. Police sought four white men in a car. Rev. Andrew Young urged restraint as about 2,000 Negroes gathered for a rally before marching through the city’s Negro district met by riot police and troopers armed with carbines and gas masks.
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J. Millard Tawes
National Guard
Frank D. Tavaliero
John Busta
Tavaliero
Busta
Cambridge
Cambridge Nonviowal Action Committee
Glory
Richardson, Negro
Savannah
Walter Williams
Gene Drew
Memorial Hospital
Drew
Andrew Young
Atlanta
Young
Southern Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr
Top Russian spy defects raising fears of intelligence overhaul
London reports a senior Soviet intelligence officer defected to the West after CIA interrogation in Washington. He is held in Britain at a secret HQ, life in danger, and his defection prompts talk of reorganizing the Soviet and British spy networks akin to the Blake case. He reportedly provided crucial details on Soviet espionage methods and networks in the West.
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London
West
Todav
Soviet Union
Britain
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
Moscow
Oleg Penkovsky
Penkovsky
Blake
Middle East
Europe
Weather County Forecast Cloudy and cool through Saturday
The forecast calls for cloudy skies and cool temperatures through Saturday with intermittent nighttime and early morning thundershowers. Little temperature change expected. Highs Saturday 75 to 80, Lows 65 to 70.
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